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$150,000: Amount for which retiring Rep. Dennis Kucinich sued House cafeteria after mishap

5: Lowest number of years of service after which a lawmaker is eligible for an annual pension

Sen. Jim DeMint, who announced on Thursday that he is leaving the Senate next month, will be joined by 35 other members of Congress who are retiring after the end of the 112th Congress. Here's a look, by the numbers at what the members will get and what they will leave behind as they leave the Hill:

1.1%: Amount of projected pay adjustment for 2013 that retiring congressmen are going to miss out on.

$27: Price (in February) of a shampoo, haircut and blow-dry at the Senate Hair Care Services salon, which has been open since 1859.

$150,000: Amount for which retiring Rep. Dennis Kucinich sued the House cafeteria after biting down on an olive pit in his sandwich, requiring extensive dental work. The suit was settled in January 2011.

8: Number of terms Kucinich served in Congress before he announced his retirement in May.

At least 13: Write-in votes for Hank the Cat, a politically minded Virginia feline who and came in third in the Senate race behind former Gov. Tim Kaine, a Democrat, and former Sen. George Allen, a Republican. He meowed his retirement via his Facebook page on November 15.